Eclipse 3.4 on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted by John
on Monday, 29 September 2008

Finally got a working install of Eclipse 3.4 on Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit, here's how...

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Now update your bashrc file,

nano ~/.bashrc

...adding this line at the end,

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/

Then download Eclipse 3.4

wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
tar xzvf eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
mv eclipse eclipse3.4

And start with...

eclipse3.4/eclipse

Thanks goes to jhcore.com for this one

Update

This didn't work for me but it might help someone in different circumstances, will keep hacking at it; eventually it'll work.

Leave a response Comments
  1. Rishi – Saturday, 18 October 2008

    hi ,

    I tried performing the afore mentioned steps ,every thing seems to be ok till i give the following command

    $ eclipse3.4/eclipse.

    Eclipse doesn't start & there is no error message .What could be the reason ?

  2. john – Monday, 20 October 2008

    exactly where i got stuck, i'm sure it's a problem with a java engine being used but can't figure out which part is failing.

    by all accounts it should fire up ok, check for a log file directory in that eclipse3.4 directory, may show what's breaking.

    as an alternate i'd grab the nightly of netbeans, although it's not the right answer i have noticed it's more stable than eclipse on ubuntu.

    http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/

    ...still no 3.4 in Ubuntu Ibex, major shame, will keep working on a solution for this; post as soon as i crack it.

    all the best,

    John.

  3. Carlos – Friday, 07 November 2008

    Make sure to download the 64 bit version. 32 bit eclipse won't start on 64 bit ubuntu.

    eclipse-java-ganymede-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

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